Tzar: The Burden of the Crown

Tzar: The Burden of the Crown is a real-time strategy game for the PC published by Take-Two Interactive and developed by the Bulgarian game developer company Haemimont Games. The gameplay is set up in a…

60 27 January 2000

Real Time Strategy (RTS) Strategy Fantasy Historical

Tzar: The Burden of the Crown is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Haemimont Games, released 27 January 2000 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Tzar: The Burden of the Crown is

Tzar: The Burden of the Crown is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Haemimont Games and released in 2000. It was published by FX Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Tzar: The Burden of the Crown, also known as simply Tzar, is a real-time strategy game for Microsoft Windows published by TalonSoft and developed by the Bulgarian game developer company Haemimont Games. It received average reviews from critics.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Tzar: The Burden of the Crown holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 12 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.4 GHz or faster, 1 GB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Tzar: The Burden of the Crown launched on 27 January 2000, within three weeks of The Sims, Metal Slug 3, Battlezone 2: Combat Commander and Dragon Blaze. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Sims, Metal Slug 3, Battlezone 2: Combat Commander, Dragon Blaze.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

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Quick answers

Tzar: The Burden of the Crown — frequently asked questions

When did Tzar: The Burden of the Crown come out?

Tzar: The Burden of the Crown was released on 27 January 2000 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Tzar: The Burden of the Crown?

At minimum, Tzar: The Burden of the Crown needs 1.4 GHz or faster, 1 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c graphics, 144 MB available space of storage.

How many GB is Tzar: The Burden of the Crown?

The PC version needs about 0.1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("144 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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